You will never make a cogent contribution in life if you have never graduated from the school of adversity. A man once said, "those who run away from adversaries never meet with advancement". You need to face the reality of adversity for your advancement to be announced.
Adversity makes a man to think wisely. It awakes the mental faculties of every serious mind. These are some of the possible questions adversity can prune you to; why am i in this level? What can i do to get out of here?
Adversity doesn't come to destroy a man, it comes to build him up. It is a factual saying "the best time to know whom a man is, is when he faces adversity". Your adversity is breeding ground for your lifting. Always view adversity with a positive mentality because adversity is an adventure to your advantages.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
"There is no education like adversity" - Benjamin Disreali
Thursday, October 25, 2007
HOW IS YOUR BUSINESS DOING – Do you need a new strategy?
1. Do you see the truth about where your business is compared to competitors in the same market? Is there a need for change?
2. Conduct a market survey/flexibility reports
- Customers, non-customers and lost customers
- See if things can be done differently and how to meet the buyer’s needs
- See what to stop; what to do differently and what you can create so you can stand out. In other words, how can you change/improve your brand or strategy?
3. Draw a picture of where you want to be. That is, your new and improved vision. (This is based on the results of your research) You could present them to existing, old, lost and non-customer. Ask for their feedback. That will help you come up with a strategy on how to actualize the vision.
4. Draw a table that shows where you are and where you want to go. Go further to find how to get there. Discuss with everyone in the company and come up with one page strategy. Support in every way moves to take the company to its desired place. The idea is for leaders to
- Think differently
- Make moves that may not have been made before
- Be confident about them
- Forget the competition and focus on the consumers
2. Conduct a market survey/flexibility reports
- Customers, non-customers and lost customers
- See if things can be done differently and how to meet the buyer’s needs
- See what to stop; what to do differently and what you can create so you can stand out. In other words, how can you change/improve your brand or strategy?
3. Draw a picture of where you want to be. That is, your new and improved vision. (This is based on the results of your research) You could present them to existing, old, lost and non-customer. Ask for their feedback. That will help you come up with a strategy on how to actualize the vision.
4. Draw a table that shows where you are and where you want to go. Go further to find how to get there. Discuss with everyone in the company and come up with one page strategy. Support in every way moves to take the company to its desired place. The idea is for leaders to
- Think differently
- Make moves that may not have been made before
- Be confident about them
- Forget the competition and focus on the consumers
FOUR STEPS TO SUSTAINED SUCCESS
Before we go on to talk about sustaining success, let us define what success is. Success is finding your purpose in this life and fulfilling it. Okay, let me break it down. It is to identify your unique niche and calling in life and strive to reach the pinnacle of it. So every step in the direction of improving your chosen line of endeavor is a success. “Success is not just the destination; it can be the daily experience of your journey!”
I believe that success that cannot be sustained is not real success. Enough of the telling of the tales of the glory days; the good old days! Is there nothing happening in your life today?
Why does the lottery winner often find himself back at square one in a few, short months or years after winning the lottery? He did not find the keys to sustained success. His was a temporary, transient experience of riches. Sometimes it is better not to taste than to have tasted it and lost it.
I am about to give you four simple steps to achieve and sustain success! For success to be sustained it must be owned. You must own your success. It cannot come from without, it must come from within. If you do not own it, it can be taken from you. But if you own it, even if they take the produce of it from you, you will be able to simply reproduce it. Okay. Let’s get down to business.
1). FIND YOUR PRODUCT
Basically, economic prosperity is attained from the platform of buying and selling. Even before the advent of money as a medium of exchange; the trade by barter was simply the exchange of products. Your bargaining power was dependent on the quality and quantity of product you possessed and your ability to convince your neighbor that he needed it. It is all about buying and selling. Every moment someone is buying or selling something. I believe that every one has a product in you. Sometimes your product could be that thing that you are overlooking because it comes so easily to you; but you fail to realize that it is not that easy for others. I write, teach and speak with ease. I took it for granted till I realize that many would spend sleepless nights trying to do what I do as second nature. One of my products is life empowering information packaged in easily understood media. I am an “infopreneur” What is your product? It could be the way you speak. It could be your ability to make friends easily. Oprah found out that her product was her personality, look what she has done with it! It could be your unique way of seeing things. What is your product? Find your product!
2) MASTER AND REPRODUCE YOUR PRODUCT
Once you have been able to identify your product, you must now master that product. Before you go to the market place you must master your product. The closer a product is to its natural state the cheaper it will be. The more refined and processed a product is, the more people are willing to give in exchange for it. That is why canned food is more expensive than the same food in its natural state. Too many people go to the market place with their product prematurely. Working and mastering your product is never a waste of time. With every refining process you put your product through the more value it is gaining. In the process of refining your product you might discover some by-products that may even be higher economic value than the original product. For example, the many by-product of refining crude oil potentially could generate far more revenue than the crude oil itself! Let’s go back to the main point. You must master your primary product to the point where you can reproduce it at will, at the same level of quality or increasing levels of quality, never lower. This is the principle upon which franchising is based. McDonald discovered a product, mastered the product, and then started to reproduce it. The product had been so mastered that when you step into McDonalds anywhere in the world it is the same. If you have mastered your product, mass reproduction should not reduce its essence or quality.
3) MARKET YOUR PRODUCT
Now that you have found, mastered and are able to reproduce your product. It is time to go to the market place. It is not sufficient to be a local champion. You have to get your product out there. Market your product! Do not just go to any market place. Identify with clarity what need your product meets and go to the market place of that need. You sometimes have to be able to show people that they need what they were not aware that they needed. Market your product. Take it far and wide.
4) HANDLE THE COMPETITION
Do not be overtly optimistic about life and the market place. There will definitely be competition. There will be those that will be doing similar things to what you are doing. But I found out that no two people are really doing exactly the same thing. There will always be a difference. In dealing with competition, do not try to pull down what others are doing rather, know the strength and uniqueness of your product and emphasize it! For example there are many teachers, writers and motivational speakers like myself but there is only one me. I have a unique way of processing information and presenting it. I simply emphasize my strengths. I magnify my office!
If you apply yourself to these four steps, sustained success will be a reality in your life. Get to work today! Find your product! Master and reproduce your product! Market your product! Handle all competition! All I have done is put you on the path to sustained success.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
“Success is not really a destination but rather a journey” – John Maxwell
I believe that success that cannot be sustained is not real success. Enough of the telling of the tales of the glory days; the good old days! Is there nothing happening in your life today?
Why does the lottery winner often find himself back at square one in a few, short months or years after winning the lottery? He did not find the keys to sustained success. His was a temporary, transient experience of riches. Sometimes it is better not to taste than to have tasted it and lost it.
I am about to give you four simple steps to achieve and sustain success! For success to be sustained it must be owned. You must own your success. It cannot come from without, it must come from within. If you do not own it, it can be taken from you. But if you own it, even if they take the produce of it from you, you will be able to simply reproduce it. Okay. Let’s get down to business.
1). FIND YOUR PRODUCT
Basically, economic prosperity is attained from the platform of buying and selling. Even before the advent of money as a medium of exchange; the trade by barter was simply the exchange of products. Your bargaining power was dependent on the quality and quantity of product you possessed and your ability to convince your neighbor that he needed it. It is all about buying and selling. Every moment someone is buying or selling something. I believe that every one has a product in you. Sometimes your product could be that thing that you are overlooking because it comes so easily to you; but you fail to realize that it is not that easy for others. I write, teach and speak with ease. I took it for granted till I realize that many would spend sleepless nights trying to do what I do as second nature. One of my products is life empowering information packaged in easily understood media. I am an “infopreneur” What is your product? It could be the way you speak. It could be your ability to make friends easily. Oprah found out that her product was her personality, look what she has done with it! It could be your unique way of seeing things. What is your product? Find your product!
2) MASTER AND REPRODUCE YOUR PRODUCT
Once you have been able to identify your product, you must now master that product. Before you go to the market place you must master your product. The closer a product is to its natural state the cheaper it will be. The more refined and processed a product is, the more people are willing to give in exchange for it. That is why canned food is more expensive than the same food in its natural state. Too many people go to the market place with their product prematurely. Working and mastering your product is never a waste of time. With every refining process you put your product through the more value it is gaining. In the process of refining your product you might discover some by-products that may even be higher economic value than the original product. For example, the many by-product of refining crude oil potentially could generate far more revenue than the crude oil itself! Let’s go back to the main point. You must master your primary product to the point where you can reproduce it at will, at the same level of quality or increasing levels of quality, never lower. This is the principle upon which franchising is based. McDonald discovered a product, mastered the product, and then started to reproduce it. The product had been so mastered that when you step into McDonalds anywhere in the world it is the same. If you have mastered your product, mass reproduction should not reduce its essence or quality.
3) MARKET YOUR PRODUCT
Now that you have found, mastered and are able to reproduce your product. It is time to go to the market place. It is not sufficient to be a local champion. You have to get your product out there. Market your product! Do not just go to any market place. Identify with clarity what need your product meets and go to the market place of that need. You sometimes have to be able to show people that they need what they were not aware that they needed. Market your product. Take it far and wide.
4) HANDLE THE COMPETITION
Do not be overtly optimistic about life and the market place. There will definitely be competition. There will be those that will be doing similar things to what you are doing. But I found out that no two people are really doing exactly the same thing. There will always be a difference. In dealing with competition, do not try to pull down what others are doing rather, know the strength and uniqueness of your product and emphasize it! For example there are many teachers, writers and motivational speakers like myself but there is only one me. I have a unique way of processing information and presenting it. I simply emphasize my strengths. I magnify my office!
If you apply yourself to these four steps, sustained success will be a reality in your life. Get to work today! Find your product! Master and reproduce your product! Market your product! Handle all competition! All I have done is put you on the path to sustained success.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
“Success is not really a destination but rather a journey” – John Maxwell
THE BOOSTER ROCKET
" After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: "Moses My servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them-to the Israelites." - Joshua 1:1-2
A rocket launch is truly an amazing phenomenon to me. Tons of weight is stacked vertically to the sky with thousands of gallons of fuel exploding in a matter of moments. Soon the rocket drops its take-off boosters and uses additional boosters to move the rocket to the next stage of the mission. The first engines have a unique purpose...to get the rocket to the next stage.Joshua was known for almost 40 years as "Joshua, servant of Moses." God's preparation for him required years of selfless service, training in the desert, and tests of faith. Those preparation years were booster rockets designed to move Joshua into each new stage of his development and his ultimate calling.God allows each of us preparation times to lay a foundation that He plans to build on.
Some of those foundation times appear to be laborious and meaningless, yet these varied experiences are what God is using to frame your life for the message He plans to speak through you. Without these foundational experiences, the Jordan River can never be crossed and we cannot enter the Promised Land.Embrace these times of seeming inactivity from God. They, too, are a rocket booster to your next stage of your walk with God.Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus (Philippians 1:6).
A rocket launch is truly an amazing phenomenon to me. Tons of weight is stacked vertically to the sky with thousands of gallons of fuel exploding in a matter of moments. Soon the rocket drops its take-off boosters and uses additional boosters to move the rocket to the next stage of the mission. The first engines have a unique purpose...to get the rocket to the next stage.Joshua was known for almost 40 years as "Joshua, servant of Moses." God's preparation for him required years of selfless service, training in the desert, and tests of faith. Those preparation years were booster rockets designed to move Joshua into each new stage of his development and his ultimate calling.God allows each of us preparation times to lay a foundation that He plans to build on.
Some of those foundation times appear to be laborious and meaningless, yet these varied experiences are what God is using to frame your life for the message He plans to speak through you. Without these foundational experiences, the Jordan River can never be crossed and we cannot enter the Promised Land.Embrace these times of seeming inactivity from God. They, too, are a rocket booster to your next stage of your walk with God.Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus (Philippians 1:6).
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
THE BENEFITS OF OBEDIENCE
This is what the Lord says-your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go." - Isaiah 48:17
My career has been in sales and marketing. Early on, I learned to distinguish the difference between features and benefits. Features represent characteristics of a product or service. Benefits are those things that directly profit or benefit me by using the product or service. For instance, my new computer has incredible speed and lots of memory (feature). This allows me to do things more quickly and easily (benefit). People are more concerned about the benefits than the features.God tells us in the above verse that there are some direct benefits to the features of His nature. He is a God who is committed to teaching His children in the way they should go. What is the real benefit of His teaching? He answers this in the next verse. "If only you had paid attention to My commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea" (Is. 48:18).The Lord tells us that the benefit of allowing God to teach us and lead us in the way is peace and righteousness. Here is a guaranteed promise from God. I often use guarantees in my sales claims. Here is God's immutable guarantee: You will have peace like a river and righteousness like the waves of the sea! What a great promise!Are you trusting God with the very details of your life so that He can lead you in the way you should go? Are you allowing Him to teach you? Seek the Lord today for what He wants to teach you and allow Him to lead you, and you will ensure peace and righteousness in your life.
My career has been in sales and marketing. Early on, I learned to distinguish the difference between features and benefits. Features represent characteristics of a product or service. Benefits are those things that directly profit or benefit me by using the product or service. For instance, my new computer has incredible speed and lots of memory (feature). This allows me to do things more quickly and easily (benefit). People are more concerned about the benefits than the features.God tells us in the above verse that there are some direct benefits to the features of His nature. He is a God who is committed to teaching His children in the way they should go. What is the real benefit of His teaching? He answers this in the next verse. "If only you had paid attention to My commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea" (Is. 48:18).The Lord tells us that the benefit of allowing God to teach us and lead us in the way is peace and righteousness. Here is a guaranteed promise from God. I often use guarantees in my sales claims. Here is God's immutable guarantee: You will have peace like a river and righteousness like the waves of the sea! What a great promise!Are you trusting God with the very details of your life so that He can lead you in the way you should go? Are you allowing Him to teach you? Seek the Lord today for what He wants to teach you and allow Him to lead you, and you will ensure peace and righteousness in your life.
GUARD AND NURTURE YOUR CREATIVE IDEAS
Numerous creative ideas often perish in the abscence of protection. The funniest thing is that many people agreed with discouragement, distraction, procrastination, failure and people's opinion to destroy their creative ideas.
Rome was not built in a day. Every creative idea that is left without nurturing will definately be choked up in the midst of adversity. Be careful to protect and nurture your creative ideas, they are your life. It will welcome you to the realm of success if you care for it.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
"It is tragic when a tree dies in a seed or a man dies in a boy" - Myles Munroe
Rome was not built in a day. Every creative idea that is left without nurturing will definately be choked up in the midst of adversity. Be careful to protect and nurture your creative ideas, they are your life. It will welcome you to the realm of success if you care for it.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
"It is tragic when a tree dies in a seed or a man dies in a boy" - Myles Munroe
BE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT NEW IDEAS
Whatever great heroic influence that has ever been made in the field of life is traceable to power of enthusaism. Enthusiasm is a dose of supernatural injection that strenghten the inner man. It compels a man to manifest heroically. Submit yourself to it! If you will ever reach the on-shore of distinction, enthusiasm must be in place. No man has ever reached the peak without enthusiasm. It makes the journey of heroism easy to walk in and it makes heroic influence easy to accomplish.
One of the ancient philosopher, Terence asserted that, "there is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance." For you to acquire any needed skill in the walk of life at all; to become proficient in any heroic task, to do anything worthwhile one must be enthusiastic.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the ancient philosopher, Terence asserted that, "there is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance." For you to acquire any needed skill in the walk of life at all; to become proficient in any heroic task, to do anything worthwhile one must be enthusiastic.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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